the MIUR plan against the shortage of white coats – Corriere.it

Not an abolition of the closed number in Medicine but rather an expansion of the places available. With 30,000 more admissions by 2030. Thus the Ministry of Education aims to solve the problem of the lack of white coats, already serious and worsening with the next retirements. The hypothesis is to raise the threshold of 14,787 accesses currently envisaged for the test in Italian by 20-30% from the 2023/24 academic year. The Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini, confirms that the draft of the technicians’ report speaks of 19,000 seats for 2023. He says: «The sense of this openness is programmed on needs. We cannot open indiscriminately, but the commission has certainly worked out how many doctors will be needed on the basis of this data and on certain types of doctors. We will have to continue to verify how many numbers are needed and on which specializations ».

Costs

However, more students also means rethinking teaching, classrooms and courses. According to an estimate by the Rectors’ Conference, 23 million would dance on the plate between teacher training, structures, laboratories to be renovated.An investment, however, necessary if we want to run for cover and staunch the haemorrhage of personnel, given that the doctors’ social security institution (Enpam) speaks of a shortage, a lack, of 24,000 white coats already in 2028. Including many general practitioners and pediatricians (as we told in this study).

The health system at risk

That these are difficult times for Healthcare is also testified by the battles of the trade associations. The doctors and health managers of Anaao Assomed and the associations of citizens, patients and health professionals have launched an appeal and a mobilization in defense of the National Health Service. “The stability of the system – reads the manifesto – is today at risk due to cuts, shortages and lost investments that make it difficult for citizens to access health services, also for the unprecedented worsening of the working conditions of Doctors and Health Managers, in a persistent numerical shortage”. And they add: «The right to health, which the Constitution wants as one and indivisible, is today declined in 21 different ways, children of regional autonomies that violate the constitutional principle of citizen equality, and denied in waiting times that are measured in semesters , ready to become a luxury commodity».